It took public health officials in Ontario, Canada almost two years to figure out that COVID-19 death statistics disseminated through the media may have been biased from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic due to combining deaths related to COVID-19 with deaths caused by COVID-19: CBC News. Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health “met with the province’s chief coroner to discuss documenting deaths accordingly.” How biased have the disseminated death counts been? Who knows? Certainly the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Rochelle Walensky, has no idea, as she told the audience of a recent network broadcast: ‘Fox News Sunday’ January 9, 2022.
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Documenting the properly adjusted COVID-19 death count could open up a huge can of worms if it turns out that the frightening number of coronavirus deaths pushed by the media over the past two years were vastly over counted.
After all, this pandemic was initially declared based on the claim that the novel coronavirus was supposed to be 10 times more deadly than influenza—but the adjusted numbers could tell a very different story: Public Health Lessons Learned From Biases in Coronavirus Mortality Overestimation.
Could it turn out that the past two years of collateral damage suffered by our compliance with fear-based over-reactions like lockdowns were all over nothing more than a severe seasonal influenza?
Furthermore, exactly how should COVID-19 deaths be adjusted to include only those deaths truly caused by COVID-19?
CDC documents in the past have shown that only about 6% of COVID-19 deaths didn’t have contributing conditions: COVID-19 Provisional Counts. That doesn’t mean, however, that only 6% of COVID-19 deaths should be counted as true deaths caused by COVID-19, because many COVID-19 deaths could have legitimate contributing conditions.
Perhaps a clue to a better method to count true deaths caused by COVID-19 resides within the name of the coronavirus: severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2).
Regardless of the number of contributing conditions and comorbidities, if a deceased person with a coronavirus infection at the time of death didn’t have a severe acute respiratory illness, like severe pneumonia or respiratory failure, it seems reasonable to exclude that death from the true death count caused by COVID-19.